Where you can still use your old Rs 500 notes

You can still use your Rs 500 notes in the following places -1) Payments towards prepaid mobile top up to a limit Rs 500 per top-up.2) Purchase from consumer cooperative stores will be limited to Rs 5000 at a time.3) Fees in central or state government colleges.

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4) Payments of school fees up to Rs 2,000 per student in central or state government, municipality and local body schools.5) Foreigners will be permitted to exchange their currency up to Rs 5000 per week.6) Payments of current and arrear dues to utilities will be limited to only water and electricity for indivisuals and households.7) Toll payment at toll plazas to be made through old Rs 500 notes from 3/12/2016 to 15/12/2016.8) Government hospitals9) Railway Tickets10) Public Transport 11) Crematoria / Burial grounds12) Petrol Pumps13) Metro rail tickets14) Medicine prescribed by a doctor15) LPG gas cylinders16) Railway Catering